Today started like any day, by the sounds of pigs squealing, rooster crowing, and dogs barking. Our devotional was led by Blaine. She was very nervous and worried about it all during breakfast, and was great! She spoke about spiritual gifts and that we need to fit together for the body of Christ to work. It was well done. So then we went to a town that I again cannot pronounce, and set up our clinic at a school that is nestled in between banana trees and coffee plants. It is the most beautiful scenery but the school is the smallest. Between Beth, dra. Gladys and I we saw 207 patients. Dental saw 57 patients. We ran out of our rationed medications with running out of children's vitamins around 2. Around 3:30 everything I wanted to prescribe for people we were out of. Then I wouldn't even have vitamins to give to people after I tell them they need to see a specialist. Dental even ran out of the dentist paper towels, they were using napkins at the end of the day! Around midday I had a patient who asked for us to go to her house to see her daughter who can't leave the house. I told the woman to talk to Christina who arranges our transportation, I figured that we could go see her this weekend or they might decide she was in to a obscure place to go see her. As we loaded up, and hour later than normal, I found out we would go see the lady on our way out of the village. So the bus stopped at this house on a hill I could see how a person who can't walk could not leave the house it was a hike for us. The woman there had really bad rheumatoid arthritis and had an infected ulcer in her leg and foot. We grabbed medications and tried to explain to the family what needed to be done. We then prayed with her the salvation prayer. It was amazing and intimate with only a few of us there. 30 minutes we were back on the bus and heading back to base camp. We got back around 6:45 and we were all exhausted we have one more clinic tomorrow!
Prayers:
Please pray that we will have enough medications and that God will guide us to who will receive the correct medication.
Prayer for safety we have some interesting roads and bridges tomorrow!
Pray for health of the team members people are starting to get sick and still have one more clinic.
Pray for restful sleep, as the rooster starts to crow at 10:30 at night.
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